Action Image, ProSieben Announce Production on New Drama Pilot

BERLIN, April
17: Action Image, a subsidiary of Action Concept
Film, and the German broadcaster ProSieben have begun pre-production in
Berlin on the pilot of an English-language urban street-racing drama series
with the working title Fast Track: No Limits.

The series
marks the first time that an English-language action drama series pilot is
being shot in Germany. The two-hour pilot, written and executive produced by
Lee Goldberg, will star young European and American actors who are being cast
by Victoria Burrows and Scot Boland, responsible for casting the Lord of the
Rings trilogy, Cast
Away, and 21 Jump
Street. Additionally,
the pilot will utilize the talents of Europe’s top stunt drivers to create
thrilling, action-packed races throughout the heart of Berlin. Fast Track:
No Limits will be
distributed by Gavin Reardon, the president of …and action! Distribution and
Jens Richter, managing director at SevenOne International.

Fast Track:
No Limits was created
from an initiative by Action Concept CEO Hermann Joha and the head of business
development Daniel Hetzer in cooperation with Christian Balz, the head of
German fiction at ProSieben. Joha, together with Katrina Wood of
MediaXchange—which brings together television professionals from Europe
with their top-level counterparts in the U.S.—created The Writers Room, a
special program of writing seminars in which experienced American show runners
teach German writers/producers the principles of American episodic television
production. Wood was responsible for bringing the U.S.-based Goldberg to
Cologne to lead the seminars, where the pilot for Fast Track: No Limits was born.

Joha noted,
“Our action series pilot in English will round out the success of our
prime-time products already broadcast in more than 50 countries worldwide. It
is with great pleasure for me and my team to realize a pilot for an
international series production for ProSieben and to work with MediaXchange and
an honour to collaborate with U.S.-show runner and top-author Lee Goldberg, who
is the script writer for Fast Track: No Limits as well.”